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went to war. This societal system was called Feudalism. The Medieval Church converted diverse people in Western Europe to Christianity. Daily life revolved around the Christian calendar and the…

in which it was associated to the catholic reformation. Additionally, it became a big thing all over France in the seventeenth century. Across all over Europe, baroque help changed the idea of vocal music and gave it a new color and new form. Such as opera and oratorio, and the rising of only instrumental music. There were three phases in the baroque that are extremely important to know. The first one phase is the Italian baroque, which was link…

How the Church changed Indulgences and How Indulgences Changed the Church Indulgences have been the epitome of corruption in the Catholic Church and rightly so. When the Catholic Church created the indulgence system they began do collect money without honesty and began to act truly like a state over a group of Christians. It is abhorrent; however, it was not purposeless and there was a reason the Church needed the ill-obtained money. The idea of indulgences was not created with ill intent, but…

which formed unique groups within society. The development of mysticism influenced the creation of women’s communities, especially the Beguines. In Bohemia, Jan Hus sparked the Czech Reformation against the papacy which brought about the Moravian Church. Mysticism led to the Beguine community of unmarried, lay women in the Low Countries. The Beguine movement began in the early 12th century and grew rapidly to the point where houses (Beguinages) within a town or city were common. Beguines…

its characteristics as a guide to do what God would have wanted him to do. The Eucharist symbolizes the sacrifice, communion and presence that all Christians should have in their lives just like Jesus did. Romero was such an important figure for the Church because he stood up for what he believed in despite it ending up…

his book was published. Both scientists held the same theory that the Earth revolved around the sun, a theory now known to be true. However, the Church disapproved of this theory because the Holy Scriptures state that the Earth is at the center, not the Sun. As the contents of the Bible were taken literally, the publishing of these books proved, to the Church, that Copernicus and Galileo were sinners; they preached, through their writing, that the Bible was wrong. Copernicus published his book…

and their children in choosing marriage partners, reasons for marriage, issues of “honor”, and how the role of the church and state have changed over time. This book, “argues to the contrary, that the institutions of social control and cultural values of colonial Spanish society both alerted significantly during this period. Beginning in the seventeenth century, the Catholic Church suffered…

cultural and social outcomes. The mission system involved Arizona, California, and Texas. The mission life during the times of the mission systems focused mainly on their religion. The new natives were taught the typical and expected ways of the Catholic life and faith. The native women were forced upon the necessity of being nuns because in this system, that was their…

Faisal Ghazwani His 171 The Protestant Reformation was in the 16th century. During the middle Ages, the Roman Catholic Church was an extremely powerful, unifying force of the people. As a result, the pope acted as the intermediary between men and God. As the Church gained more and more power, it began to use corrupt methods to earn money and control the mass. When the Church needs to finance its large building projects for Renaissance artists, it sold indulgences. Indulgences were “tickets”…

From 1346 to 1350, Europe was afflicted by the deadly disease known as the Black Death. The disease killed almost one-third of Europe’s population. A period of time known as the “Renaissance” followed the Black Death. The Renaissance was regarded as the “rebirth” of Europe. During this time, advances were made in technology and exploration. Three factors that led to this time period were the people’s diminishing belief in religion, the collapse of the feudal system and its subsequent impact on…